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. >> jim: tillman has no idea how good he's going to be. matusz is more mature, he comes out of a nice college program down in san diego. again, you have to understand, pitching in college baseball and here he is in the big leagues. that's what you want out of your number one draft choices. >> get here. good numbers for what you did below. >> 11-2 with a .199 era at a ball, double-a and triple-a. nothing left to prove. get up here and go to work. >> the only thing he has to prove is that he can get better. he was ready to pitch tonight. no disrespect to the angels. he wants to get out there. >> gary: that will miss high. >> jim: he reminds he, a lot of people saw frank tananna at the start of his career. he could throw as good as anyone in the major league. then hurt his shoulder. in the late 70s he was one of the best. >> gary: that ball is hit. the air to center, not deep. he's got it. couple of singles over two innings with a couple base runners on first. we go to bottom of the 2ndno score. and a few things we want to pay for. on top of
. >> jim: tillman has no idea how good he's going to be. matusz is more mature, he comes out of a nice college program down in san diego. again, you have to understand, pitching in college baseball and here he is in the big leagues. that's what you want out of your number one draft choices. >> get here. good numbers for what you did below. >> 11-2 with a .199 era at a ball, double-a and triple-a. nothing left to prove. get up here and go to work. >> the only thing he has...
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very similar to tillman. tillman has a better change-up than halladay had but halladay had a little more velocity. he, too, has that spike curve ball. >> jim: and then a manager named buck martinez sent him back to the minors to reinvent himself and here is what you've got. you have the ace of the staff and one of the best pitchers, if not the best pitchers in baseball, not only the american league. >> buck: it was not a one-man decision. gordon ash was involved. many people in the minor league, once he got into the minor leagues but he basically went back and rebuilt his whole approach, simplified it. changed his approach at the mound, bends over, tucks it. slowly hit toward second base. hill, to scutaro, one, back to first and in time. and it is scooped by millar. pie thought he had it beat out. trembley is going to come out for a conversation with adrian johnson but another double play ends an inning. that is the third time today a double play has ended an inning for the orioles. 5-2 toronto. hey mom i nee
very similar to tillman. tillman has a better change-up than halladay had but halladay had a little more velocity. he, too, has that spike curve ball. >> jim: and then a manager named buck martinez sent him back to the minors to reinvent himself and here is what you've got. you have the ace of the staff and one of the best pitchers, if not the best pitchers in baseball, not only the american league. >> buck: it was not a one-man decision. gordon ash was involved. many people in the...
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tillman yesterday afternoon overcame a two-run rios home run in the 2nd. let's see how brian matusz handles it. >> jim: pitch track presented by northrup grumman, the information system power house. 1-1 game. vernon wells now takes outside. vernon wells 4-for-his last 15. he is having a tough year overall, just 11 home runs. checked swing, outside, ball 3. he has had six 20-home run seasons. three separate times, he has driven in 100 runs. this year, he has not found the power stroke. has a big contract. today, he is facing the rookie brian matusz. matusz, big guy, 6'2". 3-12, offspeed witch. >> buck: that's one thing we saw matusz is very comfortable doing. he throws that change-up when he is behind in the count. >> jim: full count on vernon wells with none down. it's inside, ball 4. and a walk to vernon wells. juan samuels, the orioles' third base coach was on the roster for the jays when halladay came up. >> anything that you could take from guys like that could only be a plus for you. those guys, obviously, they have the prospect, you know. it's easy t
tillman yesterday afternoon overcame a two-run rios home run in the 2nd. let's see how brian matusz handles it. >> jim: pitch track presented by northrup grumman, the information system power house. 1-1 game. vernon wells now takes outside. vernon wells 4-for-his last 15. he is having a tough year overall, just 11 home runs. checked swing, outside, ball 3. he has had six 20-home run seasons. three separate times, he has driven in 100 runs. this year, he has not found the power stroke. has...
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chris tillman, first win of his major league career. there have been seven cycles this season. >> jim schwarts has announced ad dante culpepper, and landon donovan has the swine flue, so the rest of his teammates in the u.s. soccer team will get treatment so they don't get the swine flue. >> tiger woods had his struggles today. it didn't matter, how he managed to stay in control of the pga championship. anish shroff, and kevin consor anish shroff, and kevin consor wi i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and wherever i go, i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. at legalzo
chris tillman, first win of his major league career. there have been seven cycles this season. >> jim schwarts has announced ad dante culpepper, and landon donovan has the swine flue, so the rest of his teammates in the u.s. soccer team will get treatment so they don't get the swine flue. >> tiger woods had his struggles today. it didn't matter, how he managed to stay in control of the pga championship. anish shroff, and kevin consor anish shroff, and kevin consor wi i'm racing...
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. >> jim: cuddyer has five steals on the year. strike one right in there. kubel dh'd in the game last night with tillman on the mound and he was 0-3, but he did drive in what proved to be the winning run with a sac fly. inside, 1-1. >> buck: kubel didn't start tonight because of brian matusz the right-hander on the mound the starter for the orioles. >> jim: ball and a strike on the pinch-hitter kubel. he went too far. 1-2. tough to pickup that pitch. recognized where it is. decide to swing and realize it's sailing high and he can't do anything about it. 1-2 an off-speed pitch. it's interesting watching the contrasting these pitchers with mickolio. his off-speed pitch is 88 miles per hour. there are a lot of major leaguers who pop-out fastballs at 88. fouled back. >> buck: that ball ball -- that ball 96 miles per hourment when you throw as hard as mickolio is, you get 10 mile separation, that's a pretty good changeup. it's the change of pace. it's not complimentary to your fastball. >> jim: 2-2 the count holding on jason kubel. outside, ball three and now th
. >> jim: cuddyer has five steals on the year. strike one right in there. kubel dh'd in the game last night with tillman on the mound and he was 0-3, but he did drive in what proved to be the winning run with a sac fly. inside, 1-1. >> buck: kubel didn't start tonight because of brian matusz the right-hander on the mound the starter for the orioles. >> jim: ball and a strike on the pinch-hitter kubel. he went too far. 1-2. tough to pickup that pitch. recognized where it is....
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chris tillman will take the mound against fred cecil. our coverage on masn, 1:30 with "o's xtra" presented by at&t followed by the game at 1:00 on masn hd and wjz. more buck martinez and i'm gary thorne, thank you for joining us. this has been a masn presentation. the comeback win is the 46th of the season for the o's. how it happened, jim and rick, "o's xtra," right now! >> hi, everybody. it is "o's xtra" presented by verizon fios. the o's are able to get the opener of this three-game series. winning by a final of 7-5 over toronto. it was a come-from-behind win. huh about that, berken has two wins in the big leagues. and both against toronto. >> he went in with a 3.38 e.r.a. and finally pulls out a second win. nine consecutive losses. he finally broke that don't. he didn't get into double figures. that is a good thing. a very good effort. very, very tough after he gave up two home runs in that second inning back-to-back. he really beared down and ended up having a good game. >> toronto built a 3-0 lead, but the orioles would come back.
chris tillman will take the mound against fred cecil. our coverage on masn, 1:30 with "o's xtra" presented by at&t followed by the game at 1:00 on masn hd and wjz. more buck martinez and i'm gary thorne, thank you for joining us. this has been a masn presentation. the comeback win is the 46th of the season for the o's. how it happened, jim and rick, "o's xtra," right now! >> hi, everybody. it is "o's xtra" presented by verizon fios. the o's are able to...
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his first professional season of baseball. >> jim: two-out single. >> jim: viv. >> speaking to burt blyleven during the years he played with machine mann and his 23-year career, his observation of chris tillman who pitched last night was very impressed. once gets control of the fastball on the outside corner, tillman will be quite a professional. buck said they've got to learn to control the pitches that they can throw and blyleven went on to say he broke into the big leagues wefns just 19 and had jim cot and jim perry to learn from. did he learn a lot from them. orioles don't have that luxury as far as the elder statesman on the staff, but that being said it doesn't matter. they still got to learn to pitch. they've got to learn to play. they have to command as buck had mentioned. back to you guys. >> jim: all right, viv. here is gomez. swings through it. it's 0-2. blyleven was a good one. he certainly has enough credentials to be in the hall of fame. for some reason, he can't get in there. there's the 0-2. check swing and a breaking ball. no appeal asked for. >> buck: blyleven i think certa
his first professional season of baseball. >> jim: two-out single. >> jim: viv. >> speaking to burt blyleven during the years he played with machine mann and his 23-year career, his observation of chris tillman who pitched last night was very impressed. once gets control of the fastball on the outside corner, tillman will be quite a professional. buck said they've got to learn to control the pitches that they can throw and blyleven went on to say he broke into the big leagues...